An Explanatory Model of Jury Verdicts in Medical MalpracticeCases

医疗事故案件陪审团裁决的解释模型

• 批准号: 8709794
• 负责人: Lori Andrews
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: American Bar Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-11-15 至 1989-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8709794&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Explanatory; Model; Jury; Verdicts; Medical

To enhance our understanding of dispute transformation and the civil litigation system more generally, systematic study of civil jury verdicts is needed. Much criticism of the civil justice system is based on presumptions about the nature and causes of patterns of jury verdicts, especially the sizes of awards in particular types of cases such as medical malpractice cases and products liability cases. By devising and evaluating, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, a multivariate ecological model using data from 48 counties in ll states for the early 1980s, Drs. Andrews and Daniels' empirical study develops an explanation of patterns of actual outcomes in medical malpractice jury cases through the aggregate analysis of awards. Their contribution to understanding what decisions are made by juries and why is important beyond the numbers of jury cases because jury verdicts are very influential in determining the outcomes of the majority of civil lawsuits handled through more informal processes.

为了更全面地了解纠纷转化和民事诉讼制度，有必要对民事陪审裁决进行系统的研究。对民事司法制度的许多批评都是基于对陪审团裁决模式的性质和原因的假设，特别是对医疗事故案件和产品责任案件等特定类型案件的赔偿数额的假设。通过设计和评估，横断面和纵向，一个多变量生态模型使用数据从48个县在20世纪80年代初的所有州。安德鲁斯和丹尼尔斯的实证研究通过对奖励的汇总分析，对医疗事故陪审团案件的实际结果模式进行了解释。它们对了解陪审团作出什么决定以及为什么作出决定的贡献，其重要性超出了陪审团案件的数量，因为陪审团的裁决在决定通过非正式程序处理的大多数民事诉讼的结果方面非常有影响力。